by Rachael Roberts | Jan 26, 2021 | Habits, MIndfulness, Mindfulness practice, Personal Development
Teaching is a demanding profession, physically, mentally and emotionally. You probably already know that you need to look after yourself better. You make resolutions to eat better, exercise more, get more sleep… And yet within weeks they’ve fallen by the...
by Rachael Roberts | Jan 12, 2021 | Emotions, Habits, Negativity, Personal Development
The New Year is a time when most of us start thinking about habits we’d like to change. Maybe you’d like to drink more water, get up more often from your desk, eat more healthily and so on? These kinds of things are important, but something which is often overlooked...
by Rachael Roberts | Dec 8, 2020 | Emotions, Personal Development, Relationships
In difficult times, and goodness knows these are difficult times, being strong is not necessarily about being tough and unyielding. Many of us have been brought up to believe that we shouldn’t ask others for help. Even that we shouldn’t NEED help. Our job is to be...
by Rachael Roberts | Nov 3, 2020 | Anxiety, Emotions, Happiness, Negativity, Personal Development
If you look up failure in the dictionary, it’s defined as ‘the fact of someone or something not succeeding’. When you think about it, what does that even mean? How do we define success? Is it about what other people say about what happened? How we feel about it?...
by Rachael Roberts | Oct 20, 2020 | Anxiety, Burnout, Inner Troll, Negativity, Overwhelm, Personal Development
The ability to see at any one time what hundreds or even thousands of our friends and colleagues are up to on social media is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, how amazing is it that we can all be connected in this way? Imagine navigating lockdown without being able...
by Rachael Roberts | Oct 13, 2020 | Anxiety, Emotions, Happiness, MIndfulness, Personal Development, Saying no, Stress
If there’s one word that should come with a big flashing neon light around it, it’s ‘should’. The German psychoanalyst Karen Horney perceptively talked about “the tyranny of the should.” What does it mean if we say that we should do something? It...
